Nine Arches Press
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
https://ninearchespress.com/
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Publication Day for NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social
A dazzling #debut exploring queer Filipino identity & pop culture, embracing fashion, humour, music, dating, desire & everyday city living. A book of 'unflinching vulnerability' & finding your own truth 🧡
ninearchespress.com/publications...
A dazzling #debut exploring queer Filipino identity & pop culture, embracing fashion, humour, music, dating, desire & everyday city living. A book of 'unflinching vulnerability' & finding your own truth 🧡
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Read an online Q&A with Chris McCabe @oncreativewriting.bsky.social talking #poetry, writing across artforms, psychogeography, cities, creativity, Hedonism and more:
oncreativewriting.com/post/artist-...
oncreativewriting.com/post/artist-...
Artist Chris McCabe on psychogeography and the poetics of cities
Artist Chris McCabe on psychogeography. He is a poet, novelist, and editor and in this interview discusses his journey from Liverpool roots to London’s experimental poetry scene. His work spans genre...
oncreativewriting.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Read an online Q&A with Chris McCabe @oncreativewriting.bsky.social talking #poetry, writing across artforms, psychogeography, cities, creativity, Hedonism and more:
oncreativewriting.com/post/artist-...
oncreativewriting.com/post/artist-...
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Thank you Push The Boat Out Festival for a glorious weekend!
Wonderful to share a stage with amazing Isabelle Baafi, Janette Ayachi & hostess with the mostest Alice Tarbuck ✨✨✨
Great to see the fab folk of @lighthousebks.bsky.social again too!
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
Wonderful to share a stage with amazing Isabelle Baafi, Janette Ayachi & hostess with the mostest Alice Tarbuck ✨✨✨
Great to see the fab folk of @lighthousebks.bsky.social again too!
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Thank you Push The Boat Out Festival for a glorious weekend!
Wonderful to share a stage with amazing Isabelle Baafi, Janette Ayachi & hostess with the mostest Alice Tarbuck ✨✨✨
Great to see the fab folk of @lighthousebks.bsky.social again too!
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
Wonderful to share a stage with amazing Isabelle Baafi, Janette Ayachi & hostess with the mostest Alice Tarbuck ✨✨✨
Great to see the fab folk of @lighthousebks.bsky.social again too!
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
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👇🏽 Hope you can join us 💚🌿🌱
We're thrilled to be hosting a POETRY SPA at Bantock House #Wolverhampton
Saturday 21 February 2026
With guest poet @lkiew.bsky.social & host Roz Goddard
Ticket includes mindful reading, writing workshop, #poetry discussion, book & cake!
A perfect treat or gift.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-spa...
Saturday 21 February 2026
With guest poet @lkiew.bsky.social & host Roz Goddard
Ticket includes mindful reading, writing workshop, #poetry discussion, book & cake!
A perfect treat or gift.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-spa...
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
👇🏽 Hope you can join us 💚🌿🌱
Spend over £40 on #poetry books at our online shop and receive this gorgeous tote bag to carry your goodies in - our gift to you.
Come in for a browse: ninearchespress.com/shop
Come in for a browse: ninearchespress.com/shop
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Spend over £40 on #poetry books at our online shop and receive this gorgeous tote bag to carry your goodies in - our gift to you.
Come in for a browse: ninearchespress.com/shop
Come in for a browse: ninearchespress.com/shop
We're thrilled to be hosting a POETRY SPA at Bantock House #Wolverhampton
Saturday 21 February 2026
With guest poet @lkiew.bsky.social & host Roz Goddard
Ticket includes mindful reading, writing workshop, #poetry discussion, book & cake!
A perfect treat or gift.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-spa...
Saturday 21 February 2026
With guest poet @lkiew.bsky.social & host Roz Goddard
Ticket includes mindful reading, writing workshop, #poetry discussion, book & cake!
A perfect treat or gift.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-spa...
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We're thrilled to be hosting a POETRY SPA at Bantock House #Wolverhampton
Saturday 21 February 2026
With guest poet @lkiew.bsky.social & host Roz Goddard
Ticket includes mindful reading, writing workshop, #poetry discussion, book & cake!
A perfect treat or gift.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-spa...
Saturday 21 February 2026
With guest poet @lkiew.bsky.social & host Roz Goddard
Ticket includes mindful reading, writing workshop, #poetry discussion, book & cake!
A perfect treat or gift.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-spa...
Delighted to introduce our three PRIMERS Volume 8 Finalists. Congratulations
Carl Alexandersson
Rachel Jeffcoat @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social
Olivia Tuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social
Thanks to all our shortlisted and highly commended poets and everyone who submitted poems.
ninearchespress.com/primers
Carl Alexandersson
Rachel Jeffcoat @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social
Olivia Tuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social
Thanks to all our shortlisted and highly commended poets and everyone who submitted poems.
ninearchespress.com/primers
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Delighted to introduce our three PRIMERS Volume 8 Finalists. Congratulations
Carl Alexandersson
Rachel Jeffcoat @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social
Olivia Tuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social
Thanks to all our shortlisted and highly commended poets and everyone who submitted poems.
ninearchespress.com/primers
Carl Alexandersson
Rachel Jeffcoat @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social
Olivia Tuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social
Thanks to all our shortlisted and highly commended poets and everyone who submitted poems.
ninearchespress.com/primers
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Do join us if you are in Rickmansworth, Chesham, Watford area! Chorleywood is a lovely place 😊
Come to an evening of #poetry with @csmithpoet.bsky.social and Erica Hesketh - sharing moving, honest poems of family, parenting, care, love, and life's uncertainties.
Chorleywood Library
Tuesday 9th December, 7pm
Hosted with Chorleywood Bookshop
🎫https://t.co/YQgqNh0WLR
Chorleywood Library
Tuesday 9th December, 7pm
Hosted with Chorleywood Bookshop
🎫https://t.co/YQgqNh0WLR
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Do join us if you are in Rickmansworth, Chesham, Watford area! Chorleywood is a lovely place 😊
Discover a poem by each of these ten PRIMERS shortlisted poets at our blog: ninearchespress.blogspot.com
Stay tuned, we'll be announcing the Finalists tomorrow (Wednesday).
Stay tuned, we'll be announcing the Finalists tomorrow (Wednesday).
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Discover a poem by each of these ten PRIMERS shortlisted poets at our blog: ninearchespress.blogspot.com
Stay tuned, we'll be announcing the Finalists tomorrow (Wednesday).
Stay tuned, we'll be announcing the Finalists tomorrow (Wednesday).
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⚡FLASH SALE - titles from earlier this year now just £7.99 each. Save 33% on these celebrated #poetry books now.
Plus FREE UK postage across the shop.
Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop
Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social &
@rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
Plus FREE UK postage across the shop.
Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop
Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social &
@rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
⚡FLASH SALE - titles from earlier this year now just £7.99 each. Save 33% on these celebrated #poetry books now.
Plus FREE UK postage across the shop.
Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop
Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social &
@rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
Plus FREE UK postage across the shop.
Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop
Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social &
@rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
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Guess who I bumped into at The Poetry Pharmacy in Oxford Street! What an amazing place of seductive aromas, enticing poetry books and warm hospitality. Lovely to sign books together and read poems. 😊Thank you @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Guess who I bumped into at The Poetry Pharmacy in Oxford Street! What an amazing place of seductive aromas, enticing poetry books and warm hospitality. Lovely to sign books together and read poems. 😊Thank you @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
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Spent Friday morning with fellow @ninearchespress.bsky.social poet @csmithpoet.bsky.social signing books and recording poems for @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social!
As both of our books came out the same month, Caroline and I agreed that our books should have the combined nickname of Neon Bycatch!
As both of our books came out the same month, Caroline and I agreed that our books should have the combined nickname of Neon Bycatch!
Guess who I bumped into at The Poetry Pharmacy in Oxford Street! What an amazing place of seductive aromas, enticing poetry books and warm hospitality. Lovely to sign books together and read poems. 😊Thank you @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Spent Friday morning with fellow @ninearchespress.bsky.social poet @csmithpoet.bsky.social signing books and recording poems for @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social!
As both of our books came out the same month, Caroline and I agreed that our books should have the combined nickname of Neon Bycatch!
As both of our books came out the same month, Caroline and I agreed that our books should have the combined nickname of Neon Bycatch!
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The latest Just Another Poet channel interview features
@troycabida.bsky.social, whose debut poetry collection 'Neon Manila', published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social is a Poetry Book Society Winter 2025 recommendation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wpz...
@troycabida.bsky.social, whose debut poetry collection 'Neon Manila', published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social is a Poetry Book Society Winter 2025 recommendation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wpz...
Poet Interview: Troy Cabida
YouTube video by Just Another Poet
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November 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The latest Just Another Poet channel interview features
@troycabida.bsky.social, whose debut poetry collection 'Neon Manila', published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social is a Poetry Book Society Winter 2025 recommendation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wpz...
@troycabida.bsky.social, whose debut poetry collection 'Neon Manila', published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social is a Poetry Book Society Winter 2025 recommendation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wpz...
Come to an evening of #poetry with @csmithpoet.bsky.social and Erica Hesketh - sharing moving, honest poems of family, parenting, care, love, and life's uncertainties.
Chorleywood Library
Tuesday 9th December, 7pm
Hosted with Chorleywood Bookshop
🎫https://t.co/YQgqNh0WLR
Chorleywood Library
Tuesday 9th December, 7pm
Hosted with Chorleywood Bookshop
🎫https://t.co/YQgqNh0WLR
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Come to an evening of #poetry with @csmithpoet.bsky.social and Erica Hesketh - sharing moving, honest poems of family, parenting, care, love, and life's uncertainties.
Chorleywood Library
Tuesday 9th December, 7pm
Hosted with Chorleywood Bookshop
🎫https://t.co/YQgqNh0WLR
Chorleywood Library
Tuesday 9th December, 7pm
Hosted with Chorleywood Bookshop
🎫https://t.co/YQgqNh0WLR
⚡FLASH SALE - titles from earlier this year now just £7.99 each. Save 33% on these celebrated #poetry books now.
Plus FREE UK postage across the shop.
Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop
Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social &
@rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
Plus FREE UK postage across the shop.
Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop
Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social &
@rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
⚡FLASH SALE - titles from earlier this year now just £7.99 each. Save 33% on these celebrated #poetry books now.
Plus FREE UK postage across the shop.
Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop
Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social &
@rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
Plus FREE UK postage across the shop.
Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop
Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social &
@rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
Our Masterclass Webinar series on getting your #poetry published starts this Monday 17 November. You can still sign up for this course of three weekly sessions led by Jane Commane, for just £45.
Recordings also sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-mas...
Recordings also sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-mas...
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Our Masterclass Webinar series on getting your #poetry published starts this Monday 17 November. You can still sign up for this course of three weekly sessions led by Jane Commane, for just £45.
Recordings also sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-mas...
Recordings also sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-mas...
Our final poems from the PRIMERS shortlisted poets are now up at our blog. Discover poems by Olivia Tuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social and Becky Brookfield, and all the 10 shortlisted poets.
ninearchespress.blogspot.com
About PRIMERS:
ninearchespress.com/primers
ninearchespress.blogspot.com
About PRIMERS:
ninearchespress.com/primers
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Our final poems from the PRIMERS shortlisted poets are now up at our blog. Discover poems by Olivia Tuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social and Becky Brookfield, and all the 10 shortlisted poets.
ninearchespress.blogspot.com
About PRIMERS:
ninearchespress.com/primers
ninearchespress.blogspot.com
About PRIMERS:
ninearchespress.com/primers
Stunning sets of poems shared this evening at our online launch. Spellbinding, powerful, sharp and tender poems of love and pain from @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social and @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thank you to our poets and audience 🧡
Find these books: ninearchespress.com/shop
Thank you to our poets and audience 🧡
Find these books: ninearchespress.com/shop
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Stunning sets of poems shared this evening at our online launch. Spellbinding, powerful, sharp and tender poems of love and pain from @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social and @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thank you to our poets and audience 🧡
Find these books: ninearchespress.com/shop
Thank you to our poets and audience 🧡
Find these books: ninearchespress.com/shop
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📣TONIGHT - please sign up before 6pm for our online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thursday 13th November at 7pm GMT
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
Thursday 13th November at 7pm GMT
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
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November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
📣TONIGHT - please sign up before 6pm for our online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thursday 13th November at 7pm GMT
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
Thursday 13th November at 7pm GMT
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
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Thank you Declan Ryan & @irishtimes.com for your wonderful recent review of The Infernal Garden by Gregory Leadbetter.
Buy this beautiful #poetry book here: ninearchespress.com/publications...
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
Buy this beautiful #poetry book here: ninearchespress.com/publications...
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Thank you Declan Ryan & @irishtimes.com for your wonderful recent review of The Infernal Garden by Gregory Leadbetter.
Buy this beautiful #poetry book here: ninearchespress.com/publications...
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
Buy this beautiful #poetry book here: ninearchespress.com/publications...
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
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Great if you can join us!
📣TONIGHT - please sign up before 6pm for our online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thursday 13th November at 7pm GMT
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
Thursday 13th November at 7pm GMT
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Great if you can join us!
Today's blog poem by a PRIMERS shortlisted poem is by Mymona Bibi. Read it here: ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/11/prim...
Keep coming back for the full 10.
PRIMERS: ninearchespress.com/primers
Keep coming back for the full 10.
PRIMERS: ninearchespress.com/primers
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Today's blog poem by a PRIMERS shortlisted poem is by Mymona Bibi. Read it here: ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/11/prim...
Keep coming back for the full 10.
PRIMERS: ninearchespress.com/primers
Keep coming back for the full 10.
PRIMERS: ninearchespress.com/primers
📣TONIGHT - please sign up before 6pm for our online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thursday 13th November at 7pm GMT
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
Thursday 13th November at 7pm GMT
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
📣TONIGHT - please sign up before 6pm for our online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thursday 13th November at 7pm GMT
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
Thursday 13th November at 7pm GMT
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
Thank you Orbis & Pauline Rowe for your review of MINGLE by @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
"Parkin has a gift for glamour, absurdity and danger in the way he approaches poems as ritualized structures about a toxic, changing and endangered world."
ninearchespress.com/publications...
orbisjournal.co.uk
"Parkin has a gift for glamour, absurdity and danger in the way he approaches poems as ritualized structures about a toxic, changing and endangered world."
ninearchespress.com/publications...
orbisjournal.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Thank you Orbis & Pauline Rowe for your review of MINGLE by @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
"Parkin has a gift for glamour, absurdity and danger in the way he approaches poems as ritualized structures about a toxic, changing and endangered world."
ninearchespress.com/publications...
orbisjournal.co.uk
"Parkin has a gift for glamour, absurdity and danger in the way he approaches poems as ritualized structures about a toxic, changing and endangered world."
ninearchespress.com/publications...
orbisjournal.co.uk
⚡FLASH SALE - titles from earlier this year now just £7.99 each. Save 33% on these celebrated #poetry books now.
Plus FREE UK postage across the shop.
Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop
Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social & @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
Plus FREE UK postage across the shop.
Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop
Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social & @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
⚡FLASH SALE - titles from earlier this year now just £7.99 each. Save 33% on these celebrated #poetry books now.
Plus FREE UK postage across the shop.
Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop
Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social & @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
Plus FREE UK postage across the shop.
Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop
Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social & @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
Our next PRIMERS shortlist spotlight shines on Rona Luo, with a #poem now at our blog:
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/11/prim...
Keep coming back to the #blog for more shared poems.
PRIMERS: ninearchespress.com/primers
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/11/prim...
Keep coming back to the #blog for more shared poems.
PRIMERS: ninearchespress.com/primers
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Our next PRIMERS shortlist spotlight shines on Rona Luo, with a #poem now at our blog:
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/11/prim...
Keep coming back to the #blog for more shared poems.
PRIMERS: ninearchespress.com/primers
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/11/prim...
Keep coming back to the #blog for more shared poems.
PRIMERS: ninearchespress.com/primers